System and method for personal floating video

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a user with a floating video of a subject are provided. The systems and methods generate a floating video by removing background pixels of a primary video using a background image/video, where the user records the primary video and the background image/video. The floating video may be generated on a recording device of the user and/or a remote server. Further, the user and/or the remote server may host the floating video.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A method for providing a user with a floating video of a subject, said method comprising:
 receiving a primary video of the subject wherein the subject is located in front of a single color static background, wherein said static background has a color not known prior to said primary video being received, and wherein said single color of said static background is not limited to any predetermined color; 
 receiving background color removal input from a user that indicates a color of the static background, said background color input provided by an area of the background pixels within the primary video selected by the user or by an area of a color chart selected by the user, wherein said step of receiving background color removal input from the user comprises displaying said primary video to the user in real-time and, while the real-time video is being displayed to the user: (i) receiving input from the user that indicates a background color of the real-time video to be removed; and, (ii) altering the real-time video being displayed to the user to indicate said background color of the real-time video to be removed based on the user input and displaying the altered real-time video to the user so that the user can assess the background color to be removed; 
 based upon said input received from the user that indicates the background color to be removed, removing the indicated background color identified by the user from the primary video to define a subject video in which the static single color background is not visible, wherein the background color is removed from the primary video by identifying pixels within the primary video having said indicated background color to be removed and setting the identified backgrounds pixels to transparent; 
 transmitting the subject video to the user. 
 
     
     
       2. The method of  claim 1 , wherein said step of transmitting the subject video to the user comprises transmitting the subject video to an application or website of the user over a communications network. 
     
     
       3. The video processing method as set forth in  claim 1 , further comprising recording the altered video is displayed in real-time to the user.